Police were kept busy over two days when an attempt to take someone into custody in Norristown led to tracking a fleeing vehicle across multiple municipalities, a loaded gun along the roadway, a SWAT Team, and three arrests.
According to court documents, just before 11:00 a.m. October 15th, police observed Ronnie Dingle climbing a fence on the 600 block of DeKalb Street in Norristown, exiting a commercial building, and then getting into a dark gray Honda Accord. Police, including a special agent from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office, attempted to take Dingle into custody due to an arrest warrant for a firearms violation. As police blocked the Honda and approached the vehicle, it successfully sped away, almost striking an officer and hitting two police vehicles.
The vehicle was next located at 11:00 a.m. on Plymouth Road in Plymouth Meeting (Plymouth Township) when an automated license plate reader detected it. The next ping from a license plate reader came at 1:41 p.m. in West Conshohocken at the base of the Matsonford Bridge. A West Conshohocken police officer pursued and attempted to stop the vehicle at 1:45 p.m., which had crossed the bridge and was now at New Elm and Light streets in Conshohocken (Plymouth Township)…